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Old 03-22-2002, 08:18 AM   #1
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Sting Tolkien's Biography

I noticed that there are quite a lot of questions asked about Tolkien's life, peronal motivation, and the works; that could be aswered simply by reading the biography.
I specificaly suggest the one by Humphrey Carpenter. It is a very good book, as far as biographies go.
So, I was wondering hom many people have actually read it, and what are your thoughts on it?

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Old 03-22-2002, 01:17 PM   #2
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I bought a Tolkien Biography on DVD.
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Old 03-23-2002, 08:16 AM   #3
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I read that book, and it did begin to answer some questions for me. But doesn't seem that, to get the whole story (not that THAT's something we can ever plan on really knowing), we ought to read more than one? Different biographies probably focus on different things, and the juxtaposition of them could probably tell us a lot. (So now I feel like I need to read another one...ah, the endlessly streching line of books ahead of me......)

.....I myself actually find that what's really useful is to read "On Fairy-Tales".
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Raefindel-- (Hi!!!) What was the title of that DVD biography that you bought of TOlkien?

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